Food and Conversation: Maggie Gee OBE & Nicholas Rankin

Maggie Gee OBE has published fifteen books, including The Ice People, My Cleaner, The White Family, shortlisted for the Orange (now Bailey's) Prize, My Animal Life, Virginia Woolf in Manhattan and most recently Blood (2019) which was on the Sunday Times's 'Best Literary Novels 2019' list as well as their 'Best Summer Reading 2019' list.

Nicholas Rankin worked in broadcasting at Bush House in London for 20 years. He was Chief Producer, Arts, at the BBC World Service, when his eight-part series on ecology and evolution, A Green History of the Planet, won two UN awards. He is the author of five books including Dead Man's Chest which follows Robert Louis Stevenson.

4 Course Dinner Menu:

LANCASHIRE CHEESE "QUICHE"
Smoked Bacon, Watercress
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FROTHY SWEETCORN
Crab Dumpling, Pickled Chilli, Coriander
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NEW SEASON'S LAMB
"Lyonnaise Potatoes", Sheep's Curd, Alliums, Gremolata
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ENGLISH STRAWBERRY '''MILLE FEUILLE''
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Freshly ground Colombian Huila & El Salvador Blend Coffee or a selection of Teas served with Petits Fours

Includes:
• Quartet Brut, Roederer Estate, California NV served with snacks on arrival
• 4-course menu, including tea, coffee and Petits Fours
• A copy of each author's book to take home
• BELU mineral water
• Seating at shared tables of up to 12 guests in The Louis Roederer Private Room.

£75 per person

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Blood by Maggie Gee OBE is a black comedy-thriller whose six foot one inch heroine, Deputy Head Monica, rampages, often to hilarious effect, through a country where terrorism has become routine. Hilary Mantel described Blood as 'An astonishing book. Funny and fierce, written with style and dash, without fear.' Maggie was the first woman Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, of which she is now a Vice-President. She has been translated into 15 languages and is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

Ian Fleming's Commandos by Nicholas Rankin, is about the author of the James Bond books in Naval Intelligence. Rankin's latest, novel Defending the Rock: Gibraltar and the Second World War, is a vivid history of Gibraltar at war from 1935 to 1945. The book has been praised as 'a much-needed history' in The Times Literary Supplement, as 'highly readable' in The Guardian, as 'witty and stylish' in the Daily Telegraph, 'rewardingly informative and often delightful' in the New York Review of Books. Nicholas was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009, and works as a freelance writer and broadcaster from his home in Ramsgate, Kent.